Videos

“Getting started building your design system can be a lot to take on, which is why we thought we’d bring in Steve Dennie from Onfido. They’ve been doing excellent work in the space and their Team, Project, and File organization is a delight.”

Quick tips from Ana Boyer on how to use a Figma community file with the Batch Styler and Similayer plugins to quickly build a custom design system.

Cool to finally see an official video from Figma on using this hidden technique! See also my old article Using Constraints with Layout Grids in Figma, explaining the same approach.

Miggi shows how to use audio and cursor chat in Figma and FigJam. Audio is only available on paid and education plans. Cursor chat is available both in Figma and FigJam, while high-fives are only part of the FigJam for now.

New introductory videos from Figma, with four parts focused on exploring ideas, creating designs, building prototypes, and preparing files for handoff.

Danny Sapio shows how to create sliders and loading indicators with Auto Layout.

A beautiful deep dive into Bézier Curves, explaining how they work and showing math behind them.

Anthony DiSpezio shows the new component insert menu opened by a Shift+i shortcut.

Demo of how the new Swap Library feature works. Great for migrating to a new version of the design system or toggling between light and dark modes.

Speed up your design workflows by combining plugins Responsify and Breakpoints.

“Masks are used to reveal specific portions of layers while concealing the rest. In this video, we’ll go through how to create a simple mask, the differences between masks and image fills, alpha channels, and advanced designs combining masks with other features.”

“Let your users know they’ve got notifications with this Animated Bell Icon that starts out in Figma, gets sent to After Effects to be animated, then exported as a Lottie file.”

“In the following steps, you will learn some rapid tips and tricks for Figma. We’ll have a look at 26 Figma features, going from A to Z.”

Pablo Stanley live-streamed his process of vectorizing a couple of character sketches.

Figma hosted the Maze team to discuss the best practices for all things user research, building a robust product process centered on insights, and how best to your Figma files for scale.

Gleb Sabirzyanov shows an easy way to create tiled patterns in Figma.

A special guest in a new video by Figma:55.

“Learn some FigJam shortcuts, bring FigJam stickies into Figma, change the colors, copy-paste stickies as action items in Asana or a list in text-based applications.”

“In this episode, Charli talks with Sara Hill and Dan Ross product design leads at Shopify. They show off the evolution of the Shopify design system, how they’ve managed to scale it, and the challenges they faced along the way.”

“In this Figma Tip, we create an Auto Layout chat bubble to be used in FigJam. Chat bubbles outlined in this tip and some additional Auto Layout notecards can be downloaded and reused from a community file.”